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Incredible Hulk #181 - is it *that* red-hot?
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MGsimba77

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Im just going to rant here for a little bit...

So there was a "sale" listed on GPA for a 181 9.6 about 2 weeks ago for 16k right. I was tracking this on GPA for a while now just waiting for it to be taken down from the sales list and  relisted by the Ebay seller which I had suspicions about. I'm pretty sure they've done this before with other books. So low & behold surprise surprise it gets relisted yesterday shows up on the "item recorded as sold relisted by seller" section on GPA :facepalm:

I swear there's not enough facepalm emojis on earth to suffice for this nonsense! Ebay is a circus worthy trainwreck!!! Any IH 181 sold on Ebay is about as serious as this theme song ⤵️ :kidaround: ...sigh :facepalm:

 

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Wow there sure are a lot of these books out there, I just looked. I know the Marvel collectors are growing but I’m surprised it’s still so hot and selling at pretty high levels.   Almost 10,000 graded blue labels!  

 

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On 9/5/2019 at 5:10 PM, MGsimba77 said:

Im just going to rant here for a little bit...

So there was a "sale" listed on GPA for a 181 9.6 about 2 weeks ago for 16k right. I was tracking this on GPA for a while now just waiting for it to be taken down from the sales list and  relisted by the Ebay seller which I had suspicions about. I'm pretty sure they've done this before with other books. So low & behold surprise surprise it gets relisted yesterday shows up on the "item recorded as sold relisted by seller" section on GPA :facepalm:

I swear there's not enough facepalm emojis on earth to suffice for this nonsense! Ebay is a circus worthy trainwreck!!! Any IH 181 sold on Ebay is about as serious as this theme song ⤵️ :kidaround: ...sigh :facepalm:

 

This infuriates me. Anytime I catch this, I notify GPA even if its against my best interest. Blatant manipulation of the market is incredibly dangerous and it scares me how easily it can be done.

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17 hours ago, Naphtha said:

This infuriates me. Anytime I catch this, I notify GPA even if its against my best interest. Blatant manipulation of the market is incredibly dangerous and it scares me how easily it can be done.

This is the most fake sold comic book in the history of the world 

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19 minutes ago, MGsimba77 said:

This is the most fake sold comic book in the history of the world 

I'm seriously surprised grades below 9.0 are declining. It would take nothing more than two dealers with a stack of books and a willingness to postpone the transaction to get the prices back. I was always afraid that this scenario would eventually ruin the legitimacy of GPA. Maybe it already has in time.

I should really just get back to finishing my runs... 

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14 minutes ago, Naphtha said:

I was always afraid that this scenario would eventually ruin the legitimacy of GPA

Yeah its definitely happened a number of times but they usually relist more quickly than this one from what I've seen. This one lasted up there on GPA almost 2 weeks. I've seen the same copy get fake sold more than once on Ebay. I agree its maddening. 

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7 minutes ago, MGsimba77 said:

Yeah its definitely happened a number of times but they usually relist more quickly than this one from what I've seen. This one lasted up there on GPA almost 2 weeks. I've seen the same copy get fake sold more than once on Ebay. I agree its maddening. 

Last one I saw was on the FF4. Someone listed a 7.0 and tried to get a sale at $7500 on GPA only to relist it at a higher price two days later. The worst part was every dealer who had one in that grade immediately (within a day) upped their prices by $1000. Now the only way to get that respective grade from what is currently listed is to pay the fake price.

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3 minutes ago, Naphtha said:

Last one I saw was on the FF4. Someone listed a 7.0 and tried to get a sale at $7500 on GPA only to relist it at a higher price two days later. The worst part was every dealer who had one in that grade immediately (within a day) upped their prices by $1000. Now the only way to get that respective grade from what is currently listed is to pay the fake price.

🤦‍♂️ just crazy!!! There's another 181 in 9.4 from Ebay on GPA sold Sept 3 for 10,600. Decent number but hey its anyone's guess as to whether its real?

That fake pricing domino effect  doesn't seem to be as widespread with 181s since there's so many but its more of a consequence with those silvers I'd bet 

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6 hours ago, Naphtha said:

Last one I saw was on the FF4. Someone listed a 7.0 and tried to get a sale at $7500 on GPA only to relist it at a higher price two days later. The worst part was every dealer who had one in that grade immediately (within a day) upped their prices by $1000. Now the only way to get that respective grade from what is currently listed is to pay the fake price.

Seeing as I own a 7.0, I hope they get the higher price. lol 

When books are heating up most sellers will want to make sure they do not miss out on any of the run up hence the high prices. It did not take much foresight to figure that FF #4 would take off once the Fox/Disney deal was announced. I know someone who bought a CGC 9.4 of FF #4 for $25K as soon as the deal was approved to go through. That was the time to grab any FF or X-Men keys at low/more reasonable prices. 

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3 minutes ago, kimik said:

Seeing as I own a 7.0, I hope they get the higher price. lol 

When books are heating up most sellers will want to make sure they do not miss out on any of the run up hence the high prices. It did not take much foresight to figure that FF #4 would take off once the Fox/Disney deal was announced. I know someone who bought a CGC 9.4 of FF #4 for $25K as soon as the deal was approved to go through. That was the time to grab any FF or X-Men keys at low/more reasonable prices. 

Yeah, I was lucky enough to grab all my FF keys the summer before that announcement. I actually traded most of my bronze age collection for an FF1 in october 2016. I don't think the seller was happy two months later.

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On 9/1/2019 at 10:26 AM, Darkowl said:

Just did a Sold Listings search on ebay for a 7.5 grade. The numbers are not impressive. I'm just not seeing any real growth right now.

How do you do that? I'd like to see what people are actually paying vs. what outrageous prices people are asking.

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7 minutes ago, PunisherPunisherPunisher said:

 get me back to the future

Amazing, $3 for a Hulk 181 back in 79

Compared to Amaz Spider-man #129 nm $2, #121 Gwen Stacy nm $15. I imagine Howard the Duck #1 was about $10 back in 1979. Howard Duck #1 did not hold it's value even with the movie executive produced by George Lucas.

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